State v. Kirkman’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 1978
7 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on State v. . Carroll · S. v. . Vann
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The conduct of a trial in the Superior Court, the preservation of order and the prevention of unfair tactics and behaviour on the 'part of witnesses and others must be left in large measure to the control and wise discretion of the presiding judge.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sparrow
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.